Clear Direction
Complex requirements are translated into decisions, priorities, owners, and a realistic path forward.
Senior cybersecurity compliance advisory
Experience that turns compliance complexity into clear decisions.
Maika‘i Solutions helps small defense contractors, companies pursuing DoD work, and mission-focused partners build practical, resilient cybersecurity programs.
- 20+
- Years of cybersecurity experience
- USAF
- Veteran-founded and mission-focused
- Hawai‘i → Beyond
- Serving U.S. and Indo-Pacific clients
Understand what applies. Secure what matters.
Experience behind the work
Built from the operator’s side of compliance.
Maika‘i Solutions was founded by Diane Kepo‘o, a U.S. Air Force veteran and cybersecurity compliance consultant with more than two decades of experience helping organizations prepare for audits, manage risk, respond to incidents, and improve security operations.
Her work has spanned defense and intelligence, aerospace, technology, financial services, healthcare, and research—environments where sound security decisions require technical depth, operational judgment, and disciplined execution.
That experience defines the foundation of every Maika‘i engagement: understand the mission first, determine what truly applies, and deliver practical security and compliance solutions that organizations can sustain. Every consultant engaged by Maika‘i is selected for their technical expertise, professional judgment, and commitment to the same standard of quality and client service.
What clients can expect
Senior guidance without unnecessary layers.
Practical Execution
Policies and technical controls are designed around how your organization actually operates—not an imaginary perfect environment.
Direct Accountability
You work with the senior consultant responsible for the strategy, recommendations, and quality of the engagement.
Structured for direct senior support
Senior attention. Flexible delivery. Built around the work.
Maika‘i is structured to provide clients with direct access to senior expertise, clear accountability, and flexible delivery without unnecessary layers.
When an engagement requires additional capacity or specialized expertise, trusted professionals are engaged for defined needs while strategy, quality, and accountability remain centrally managed.
Direct access
Work directly with the person accountable for your outcome.
Specialists when needed
Add targeted expertise without carrying unnecessary overhead.
Right-sized delivery
Scale the engagement to the mission, risk, timeline, and budget.
Experience where the stakes are real
Perspective shaped across complex environments.
Maika‘i brings lessons from regulated, technical, and mission-driven organizations into a consulting approach designed for smaller businesses that need clarity without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Defense & Intelligence
Risk management, authorization, assessments, operational security, and mission-focused compliance.
Aerospace & Applied Research
Secure engineering environments, research operations, and programs balancing innovation with control.
Financial Services & Healthcare
High-consequence environments where security, resilience, privacy, and auditability intersect.
Technology & Cloud
Modern systems, provider responsibilities, scalable controls, and evidence across evolving architectures.
The standard behind the name
Maika‘i
The sum of excellence in conduct.
For us, Maika‘i represents doing careful work, communicating clearly, and helping clients leave each engagement more capable than when it began.
Excellence is not decoration. It is visible in the quality of the analysis, the practicality of the recommendations, and the integrity of the relationship.
Start with clarity